The year 1926 found me in a world of darkness and doubt. My mother had just passed on, and I was left alone and discouraged, for at this time I was an albino and was suffering from congenital nearsightedness, the pupils of the eyes moving back and forth. This developed into blindness and severe headaches, the latter lasting from one week to a month. I had worn glasses for about thirty years, but was unable to get any strong enough. I was always told to expect the worst, until a friend said that God could heal me as He healed in Jesus' time.
It was several months later that I was led to attend the Christian Science Sunday services. My little cousin, reading the announcement in the daily paper, made me curious to know what Christian Science services were like. I did not know that this Science was what my friend had referred to. The services were so peaceful and uplifting that I could not stay away. I learned through hearing the Lesson Sermons from the Christian Science Quarterly that Christian Science heals. On inquiring how one could get help I was told that there were practitioners. Again Truth was guiding me, for a loving friend offered to take me to see a practitioner seventy-two miles away. I shall never forget that hour spent with her, when I first learned what God is, and that our real self hood is made in His image and likeness.
The healing came slowly, for it was hard for me to realize that it was my own thinking that needed correcting. But one day when the practitioner had been telling me, in the words of the apostle, "Now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation," I realized that I was healed of blindness and of the moving of the pupils of the eyes. Since then I have been able to read or sew all day long. I am grateful to the dear ones who helped by reading to me during this experience.
